The Make-up Series- The Reminder

Hey guys………I’m back from my very short sabbatical. Yo-kee-ba and some others have seriously tackled me for abandoning my blog whenever I'm in school. Ma binu guys, I’m extremely sorry for keeping away for so long, I was so chocked with school work….I’m on break now and I’m gonna try very hard to tell you how I spent the first quarter of the year. 

This is to y'all that always anticipate something new from Rhemz PKay.

Let me start with what I call The Make-up Series.

Enjoy………..

THE REMINDER!

In January I wrote stuff for the year. Many people call it a New Year resolution but what I wrote is far from one. It was not a list containing the changes I intend to carry out in my character, attitude or dress style in the New Year. I actually did two lists. The first was a plan, a blueprint, a breakdown of some of the things I intended to do this year. The second was a list of some of the things I wanted God to give me during the year. Well things didn’t go exactly as I planned but I pride in the fact that I didn’t completely fail to do the things I set out to do and with regards to God’s gifts, they’re coming too.

So I returned from the strike with new vigor and determination to succeed at the plans I had sketched out. Two weeks into the semester, it was like a shutdown on those plans. There was this really crazy course I was doing, CLA 105, ‘Basic Reporting Techniques’. That course was so stressful and time consuming, but it was a nice experience though…omo I go forever dey thankful to Richard (you’ll hear his gist soon) for his assistance during this period. So for this course, we were to submit current news reports comprising of two news stories twice a week. Aside this course, there GES 107 a somewhat science course about HIV/AIDS etcetera etcetera. There was also CLA 107. CLA 107 is two semester course on photojournalism. As the name connotes, it requires a lot of going out to take pictures that ‘tell stories’. 

Our lecturer, Mr Kuti, God bless his gentle soul schooled us thoroughly on both the digital and analogue cameras. Even though we still need more practice to become bosses in photography, we are better than many photographers roaming the streets. Then there was CLA 108- Intro to Graphics and Book Publishing. That was another practical course where we had to do assignments on corel draw I had an issue there because when I submitted my graphics assignment, a valentine card, the lady taking us rejected it saying she wanted to watch how I had designed it. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to ‘cos she never showed up at the agreed time for the rematch. Omo see how serious I’m sounding, book can kinda take out all the fun from someone’s life ehn….you go kon become all serious and all…everything’ll now feel so tight.

One Thursday, I went to church to mark attendance, you know, make an appearance so that peeps will not ask why I didn’t attend service, God forgive my soul! How many people feel me in the house?!!!!!!!!!!!........................God go deliver all of una!).

I just wanted to sit at the back or middle row you know, get it over with and go back to my hostel, but the amazing usher on duty decided to place me in one of the front row *rme*I don’t like front rows except when they are sharing stuff lol…. So very very reluctantly, I followed and stood, it was worship time. I honestly didn’t have any motivation for coming other than the reason already stated which is to mark attendance. One thing that kinda compensated for the usher’s ‘helpfulness’ was that I loved singing to God so I decided to enjoy the worship.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm….a lot of things happens while I’m worshipping God, one of them happened that day.

He was asking me about the stuff I planned to do, if I had done them etc and I had a deep conviction within me to start something. While worshipping I began to map out a plan, a model of how I was gonna start out on my plans. I see you all church folks saying ‘hun! See what you are thinking about while worship, you are so not born again’. In reply to that I’ll say, “Dey there!”  I heard a preacher say, ‘Your worship is not complete until you’ve taken something out of it. It might be an idea, a spiritual gift, a vision, a song, a story etc but you must get something out of your worship of God.’ God is a giver.

I thought that was all until Leke came up to speak to us, it was Bible study and Leke was taking the sermon that day. Leke was the first usher in SCM fellowship that welcomed me to church with a handshake and a giant smile plastered on his face. He is currently the President of the Student Christian Movement.

So Leke came up to speak that day (He wasn’t yet President then) and he spoke about vision….omo e be like say God really meant me that day o….He asked what we were doing with the talents and ideas God had given us. He made several references but there’s one I especially like to remember and it’s his mimic of girls’ pouting picture style for instagram uploads. He said it was because someone worked on his vision that we were able to upload pictures on instagram.  As far as I’m concerned that was the ‘realest’ sermon I’ve heard in a really long time. I wasn’t surprised when he was made President.

*singing* "for the way of the Lord is the way of wisdom….I choose the way of the Lord".

hmmmm....I wonder why all SCM Presidents like singing so much…….

We will never know…..

So Leke’s sermon in conjunction with God’s words merged and formed the motivation for the commencement of the make-up training. So I started telling people about it.  

At that time, we were introduced to Corel draw in Graphics class. I needed fliers so I went to Photoshop. The design wasn’t doing it for me on Photoshop so I decided to try Corel draw. When I started, I couldn’t stop until I got to the end. The flier was completed,

and.......................

WALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........................